File Sources in Power Automate

These are a few examples of actions you can use as source for your documents. In general, you can use any action or trigger that includes a binary format output. These outputs are usually called “File Content”.

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Microsoft Sharepoint

• Get File Content
• Get file content using path
• Get attachment content

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OneDrive for Business

• Get file content
• Get file content using path
• Convert file: Use this to convert files into PDF. You can convert these file formats to PDF: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, HTML, and emails.
• Convert file using path: Same as Convert File

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Dropbox

• Get file content
• Get file content using path

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Google Drive

• Get file content using id
• Get file content using path

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Box

• Get file content using id
• Get file content using path